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Rendell, RuthSummary: Master of the moor: As a boy, Stephen Whalby took to his beloved moor to escape trouble at home. Trouble follows him there as an adult, however, when women's bodies begin turning up among the rocks, heather, and bogs. Stephen finds no refuge when D.I. Manciple--a rude outsider, unwelcome in the village of Vangmoor--targets him as the prime suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media U.S. 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIVRendell, Ruth
Summary: "A story set in London of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and of one man's spiral into darkness as he falls victim to a diabolical foe he cannot escape"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: "Mystery novel about friendship, love, and aging. Synopsis: In the wanting months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood. Throughout the summer of 1944--until one father forbids it--the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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Summary: Inspector Wexford, who years ago suspected that Eric Targo was the killer in Wexford's first murder case, spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2001
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Summary: Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rendell 2010Rendell, Ruth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1999
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Summary: A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are unclear; and whose curious secretary--the plain Polly Flinders--provides the Inspector with more questions than answers. And when a second Grenville West comes to light, Wexford faces a dizzying array of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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Summary: The psychologically charged affairs between residents and servants on a posh London street escalate to violence involving a handsome valet who is sleeping with a lord's wife and daughter, an au pair who aids her mistress's affair, and a disturbed gardener.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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Summary: Rendell's novel finds Inspector Wexford getting pulled out of retirement to assist with a chilling case involving four bodies--three old and one new--found down an unused coal hole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: When four bodies are discovered in the same underground sewer 12 years after the events of A Sight for Sore Eyes, former Chief Inspector Wexford is pulled out of retirement to follow a complex trail to the original murders only to have his life thrown into turmoil by a devastating personal tragedy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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Contents: A pair of yellow lilies -- Paperwork -- Mother's help -- Long live the queen -- Dying happy -- The copper peacock -- Weeds -- The fish-sitter -- An unwanted woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1991
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Summary: "When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighborhood. Carl needs cash, however, so he rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That was colossal mistake number one. Mistake number two was keeping his father's bizarre collection of homeopathic "cures" that he found in the medicine cabinet,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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Summary: The loneliness of Arthur Johnson "has perverted his desire for love and respect into a carefully controlled penchant for violence," and now, "one floor below him, a scholar finishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about to stumble--quite literally--upon one of Arthur's many secrets."--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2000
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Summary: "The discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Contents: Means of evil.--Old wives' tales.--Ginger and the Kingsmarkham chalk circle.--Achilles heel.--When the wedding was over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1980
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1999
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Summary: "A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013
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Summary: A handsome young craftsman falls in love with a sweet, upper-class girl in Britain. The girl's stepmother opposes the romance because of his low-class origin so he murders her. Not his first murder, either. By the author of Road Rage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1987